Second dielectric virial coefficients BZ(T) of the rare gases Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe are calculated in a broad range of temperature using accurate HFD-type interatomic interaction potentials and available information on the trace of the pair polarizability Aa. It is shown that the experimentally determined temperature-variation of BC(T) cannot be reproduced by existing theories. However, it is obse...

Thermodynamics originated with the study of heat engines. A precursor to heat engines, the vacuum pump, was designed by the German scientist Otto von Guericke who, in 1650, created the world’s first ever vacuum in what are known as the Magdeburg hemispheres. He was driven to make a vacuum in order to disprove Aristotle’s long-held supposition that “Nature abhors a vacuum”. Shortly thereafter, I...

The rate of clearance of radioactive xenon (‘33Xe) from a joint (St Onge, Dick, Bell and Boyle l968a ; Dick, Whaley, St Onge, Downie, Boyle, Nuki, Gillespie and Buchanan l970b) has been shown to reflect the degree of inflammatory involvement of the joint at the time of study, and has been used to measure synovial blood flow in the human knee (St Onge, Dick, Boyle, Jasani, Whaley, Pack and Bucha...

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Stec EM, Vannucci SJ, Smith QR: Blood-brain barrier glucose transporter: effects of hypoand hyperglycemia revisited. J Neurochem 1999; 72:238–47 42. Preiser J-C: Restoring normoglycemia: Not so harmless. Critical Care (London, England) 2008; 12:116 43. Wilson M, Weinreb J, Hoo GWS: Intensive insulin therapy in critical care: A review of 12 protocols. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:1005–11 44. Krinsley ...

This project aims to develop a new framework which enables compilers to adapt with and exploit the exponential growth in hardware performance. This is achieved by systematically describing the program optimisation space and by developing new approaches to explore this space in a manner independent of application or underlying architecture. Furthermore, by transcending the distinction between co...